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Introduction to Thermodynamics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 480-8673/02
Abbreviation UTd
Course title Introduction to Thermodynamics
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Physics
Course coordinator doc. RNDr. Dalibor Ciprian, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Basic definitions, state parameters and state functions
2. The first law of thermodynamics, equations of state
3. Reversible, irreversible and natural processes, heat capacities
4. The second law of thermodynamics, kvasistatic processes, absolute temperature, entropy
5. Thermodynamics potentials - internal energy, entropy and Gibbs function
6. Helmholtz free energy, enthalpy, relation among the derivatives of thermodynamic quantities
7. Chemical potential
8. Application of thermodynamic potentials to simple systems
9. Conditions of thermodynamic equilibrium
10. Thermodynamics of mixing
11. Phase equilibrium, the influence of the boundary
12. Introduction to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, Onsager relations, diffusion and heat transfer
13. The third law of thermodynamics, thermodynamics of blackbody radiation

E-learning

Consultation on demnand through MS Teams

Literature

Adkins, C. J., Equilibrium Thermodynamics, Cambridge University Press, 3 edition, 2008, ISBN 978-0521274562 
Hardy, R., J., Binek, Ch., Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Wiley-Blackwell, 1 edition, 2014, ISBN 978-1118501009 

Advised literature

Boles, M., Cengel, Y., Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, McGraw-Hill, 8 edition, 2014, ISBN 978-0073398174 
Fermi, E., Thermodynamics, Important Books, 2013, ISBN 978-8087830611